Advanced connectivity to back-end systems and cloud-based services that is optimized for mobile devices

Advanced application management for updates and version control

IBM Worklight V5.0.5 and Mobile Foundation V5.0.5 enable you to develop rich, cross-platform applications that can access the full capabilities of a wide range of mobile devices. Worklight V5.0.5 can help reduce time-to-market, cost, and complexity of development, while enabling an optimized customer and employee user experience across multiple environments.

Worklight helps you:

Build applications by using standard technology, such as HTML5, software development kits (SDKs), and integration with the growing ecosystem of third-party tools, libraries, and frameworks.

Connect mobile applications to a variety of enterprise back-end systems and cloud services through mobile-optimized middleware.

Manage a portfolio of applications and the lifecycle of their content from one centralized administration console.

Mobile Foundation V5.0.5 is a family of products which includes Worklight V5.0.5 and delivers an open, comprehensive, and advanced mobile application platform for smartphones and tablets. It is designed to enable organizations of all sizes to extend their business by efficiently implementing and managing HTML5, hybrid, and native applications.

It can also help reduce time-to-market, development costs, and ongoing maintenance efforts. As part of the Mobile platform, Worklight can be integrated with application lifecycle, security, management, and analytics capabilities to help you address the unique mobile needs of your business.

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Device Runtime - Extensible libraries and client APIs that expose and interface with native device capabilities, such as the camera, accelerometer, and contacts, using standard web skills

Console - A web-based administration interface for real-time control of your mobile application and infrastructure

Application Center - A private app store that helps developers get feedback on their mobile applications from testers and stakeholders.

Studio

Worklight V5.0.5 simplifies the development of mobile web, hybrid, and native applications across multiple mobile platforms. This includes iOS, Android, BlackBerry, and Windows Phone. It provides visual development capabilities and source code enhancements to help developers accelerate development, test, and delivery of mobile applications. Worklight V5.0.5 includes an optimization framework to enable the delivery of a rich user experience that adheres to the unique capabilities and styling requirements of multiple mobile target environments.

In the development process, Worklight V5.0.5 helps maximize the sharing of the codebase among environments. This helps to reduce costs of development, time to market, and ongoing management efforts.

Server

This mobile-optimized middleware component facilitates connectivity between the mobile applications and the enterprise back-end. The server can deliver back-end data in a mobile-friendly format (from both communication and developer perspectives). It reduces requests over the mobile network, and allowing the implementation of more complex logic on the server. Another capability of the server as mobile middleware is the uniform architecture of push notifications that allows the enterprise to initiate engagement with the application users, regardless of whether the application is running or not.

Device Runtime

Device Runtime components are a set of developer libraries that are compiled into the mobile applications and are designed to complement server-side function. Device Runtime components also provide on-device, encrypted storage facilities for storing sensitive data on the device and to collect diagnostics and usage data for reporting and analytics.

Console

With the console, administrators can remotely disable applications based on predetermined rules of application version and mobile device, directing users to a new version of the application, if necessary. They can also deploy new versions of an application's web code and automatically push them to users (depending on the terms and conditions provided by the mobile device vendor).

Administrators can also monitor the push notification framework and enable or disable notifications to specific applications. Furthermore, administrators can access reports describing application adoption and usage, or integrate with the enterprise Business Intelligence (BI) system to perform custom analytics on mobile usage data.

Application Center

The Worklight Application Center can function as an Enterprise Appstore, providing a place to deploy mobile applications with appropriate access control and role based security. In addition, for those customers who want to deploy mobile applications to the IBM Endpoint Manager for Mobile Devices, the process of moving mobile applications from development with Worklight to production deployment with IBM Endpoint Manager for Mobile Devices is simplified.

New with Mobile Foundation V5.0.5

Mobile Application Governance

Worklight provides an enterprise application store for production apps, based on the Worklight App Center.

Worklight and Endpoint Manager for Mobile Devices can integrate key application management functions and usage information to streamline management of mobile devices and their applications.

The process of moving mobile applications from development with Worklight to production deployment with Endpoint Manager for Mobile Devices is simplified.

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Mobile Foundation and Worklight are capable as of November 16, 2012, when used in accordance with associated IBM documentation, of satisfying the applicable requirements of Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act, provided that any assistive technology used with the product properly interoperates with it.

Worklight V5.0.5 is a core product within the overall Mobile strategy and part of the Mobile Foundation family of products. Worklight offers organizations a wide set of services aimed at helping them develop and deploy rich, cross-platform mobile applications that connect mobile employees and customers to enterprise back-end systems and cloud-based services.

Because Worklight V5.0.5 is based on open standards rather than proprietary scripting languages, automatic compilers, and code translators, it helps businesses protect their mobile investment, reduce development costs, and avoid technology lock-ins.

Worklight, together with the additional products from IBM portfolio described below, enables companies to address the entire lifecycle of their mobile initiative.

As the desktop, server, and mobile operating system platforms are updated, IBM plans to provide Worklight service updates to support updated operating system levels, assuming forward compatibility. IBM will test internally with available Beta releases from the operating system vendors, and intends to provide necessary updates in the Worklight service stream as soon as possible after general availability of updated operating system levels.

As part of the Mobile Foundation product offering, IBM intends to provide additional platform support for the Worklight product offerings in response to customer feedback and market demand. With the current expectation of the needs of our enterprise customers, IBM anticipates extending support to IBM System z® hardware and the IBM z/OS® operating system in the future.

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Whether your goal is to successfully build, run, and manage mobile applications across mobile platforms, or to integrate WebSphere middleware into your IT infrastructure, WebSphere Education delivers a range of training options to help you achieve maximum business benefit from your investment.

A unique curriculum built on intimate product knowledge

The WebSphere curriculum provides a unique training value built on exclusive product knowledge. The WebSphere Education team works closely with IBM product developers and services organizations to ensure that our courses provide the most up to date technical and product information. WebSphere Education training places an emphasis on the advanced knowledge and insight that only these knowledgeable sources can provide.

IBM draws from a deep pool of IBM technical experience in the development of educational programs and courses, and passes that knowledge on to you. With over 200 courses across 8 curriculum areas, WebSphere Education provides training that spans the spectrum of skills needs from introductory product overviews to advanced programming and administration.

The WebSphere Education portfolio includes training offerings for Worklight V5.0.5, with topics such as developing mobile applications for consumer and enterprise environments, and managing applications and services across various mobile platforms.

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WebSphere Education offers several training options to meet your budget and time goals. Many offerings are delivered in a traditional classroom setting, at either your location or an IBM training center. Online delivery options are also available. Instructor-led, online classes are taught real time by an IBM instructor in a virtual classroom setting. Or, for a more independent training experience, you can select from a wide-variety of self-paced, online courses that you complete on your schedule.

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The following products integrate well with Worklight and Mobile Foundation solutions to deliver unified front-end and back-end mobile development:

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